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TIL The Z-series Spacesuits look a LOT like Buzz Lightyear

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Z8NQo TIL AJ Jacobs embarked on a quest to read the entire Encyclopaedia Britannica and was a contestant on "Millionaire" but only won $32,000 because he forgot what an erythrocyte was. He also visited the Brittanica HQ and discovered that not even the editor-in-chief knew every fact in its publication
LoyV TIL that Scientology is considered a commercial enterprise in Switzerland.
rNKP0 TIL that American voice actor Wayne Allwine, who holds the record for the longest-running actor to play Disney’s Mickey Mouse at 32 years, was also married to the actress who voiced Minnie Mouse
RGA1 TIL a Japanese man imprisoned after the Fall of Saigon at the end of the Vietnam War said that when he got out in 1988 there were still 5 American POWs in the prison he was in
4kLkw TIL that samosa a triangular Indian snack is banned in certain areas of Somalia because the local militant group Al Shadab felt that the triangular shape represented the holy trinity.